Example sentences of "i [vb mod] to be [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ought to be married with half a dozen kids of my own . |
| 2 | I found myself thinking affectionately that I ought to be straightforward with him ; the English liked that . |
| 3 | I feel I ought to be nice to them wherever possible . |
| 4 | Yeah well Lucy thinks I ought to be horrible to them but well |
| 5 | In general I shall recognize what is , not what ought to be ; but certainly I ought to be aware of what I am trying to do , why I want it , how to do it , whether it can be done . |
| 6 | Erm I think I ought to be brief on this . |
| 7 | Like you , I used to be overcome with shyness and would hover outside a roomful of people rather than go in and meet them . |
| 8 | ‘ I used to be good at running , trained three times a week and I was always competing . |
| 9 | I said that I used to be partial to them when I smoked . |
| 10 | ‘ I used to be nervous before big games , but what has happened this year has given me increasing confidence , ’ said Beal . |
| 11 | When I used to be involved in the old days , people used to say : ‘ I 'm from Coopers , I 'm from Peats , and this is the way we do it' ’ . |
| 12 | So now I always and so I , I 'm thinking that it might be that , that I that erm maybe you know like I used to be anxious about something like that and I used to wake up and the dream used to happen , but now that I 've double checked that I know for sure that , that I 'm safe you know for the night it does n't happen any more by cutting off possibility |
| 13 | Anyway ; I used to be petrified of these dragons , even though I knew they probably did n't exist ; I mean I knew there was no Santa Claus , and no fairies and elves , but still thought ghosts and dragons were a possibility , and it only took one to kill you … |
| 14 | I used to be scared of the possibility that one day mum would n't be able to get me up . |
| 15 | I 'd never eaten breakfast on weekdays before , and I used to be starving by lunch-time and pig out . |
| 16 | ‘ I used to be angry about the hypocrisy and the cruelty of religion . |
| 17 | " I used to be active in the church but not now , there used to be hell on if I did things in the church . |
| 18 | I used to be able to , but just lately I 've found it 's impossible ; once I 'm awake I start worrying about the silliest things . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ And another thing that 's changed is that I used to be wary of getting into certain types of music , for fear they would show up in my playing ; these days , though , I figure that listening to just about anything is cool . |